ANA CARBAJO
The more or less young, secular or religious, militant or even poetic. But if some bloggers have in common the Gaza Strip is that the Internet is for them one of the few windows of expression and communication with the world. The Israeli blockade that has lasted more three years and coincides with the takeover of the Islamist movement, prevents both women and men enter and leave the Strip except for very rare exceptions. In the case of women, lack of freedom of movement is added the limitations of a conservative culture and increasingly Islamized. So, Internet is for half-life bloggers and Gaza so that when they have to type in rooms that are often shared with a bunch of brothers, feel free. These are the ideas and projects of some of the cyber fringe, Asmaa
Alghoul. It is probably the dean and, of course, makes the most noise in the Gaza Strip. He has 29 years, a child of six and divorced. It is one of the most critical voices throughout Hamas. The Islamist movement said that the poor buy all kinds of services offering and a place in heaven. Alghoul Gaza fear that one day end up being a great Islamic university, where students are living separately and where women are covered from head to toe. "There can not see you talking to a man unless you're married, in the mosques are saying that society is full of prostitutes and to be filled. The woman is always suspicious. Sometimes I think that Islamists are the most Freudian , see sex everywhere. hide behind religion to impose policies sexist and discriminatory. "
Alghoul, born in a refugee camp near Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip border, is an exception in almost every way. For starters it is a divorced woman who moves to ease -sometimes even by bicycle in the Gaza Strip by hair in the wind. But above all, it is very clear that being a woman can not force her to make life more miserable than any man. In part because he broke with her husband, an Egyptian poet after the wedding turned out to be an extremely jealous man who aspired to his wife not to leave home to work. "When I got divorced, everyone blamed me for having erred in choosing a husband. Then my uncles forced me to wear the hijab. You need to have a man next to deciding whether you get or you take off the handkerchief. "But after a while, he realized he did not need the approval of any man to make that decision." I took it off and Yes, people criticize you, what? ".
is a writer and journalist, but left her job at a newspaper close to Fatah, the ruling party in Ramallah, because she is not tied to any party or feel like censure anyone what he writes. So in 2009 he set up his own blog and began posting his articles. There complaint calls, talk politics and the crimes of honor and discrimination suffered by women like her in the Gaza Strip. "This is very difficult to be a lay woman," he says. In his blog has received death threats. "Yes, of course, easy is not to fight, but if we lost we can express ourselves freely." Recently arrested for participating in a protest in support of the Egyptian revolution and says she was beaten at the police station. That has not diminished one iota their fighting spirit. Now preparing new protests by Palestinian youths emulating the experience of their Egyptian neighbors. Rana
Baker. Is a Business Administration student at the Islamic University of Gaza, 19 years, you would like to be a journalist and making their first steps on a local radio. In his blog he writes in English because she says she is trying "to talk to the world out there."
your blog entries talk about their childhood, teenage life and politics. Like other young, Baker is undergoing a rapid process of politicization, which began shortly after the war in Gaza (2008-2009) and has grown with the riots that drive young people throughout the Arab world. "I've noticed that young people can demand that our governments. Let us be men or women. If we participate together in the revolution, then we are equal."
tells Israeli attacks first person and has become an activist movement that promotes a boycott of Israeli products. "While we are subject to an embargo, I boicotearé Israeli products." On the Net also spent hours devoted to discussing with the Israelis in the forums, but never had the opportunity to meet an Israeli flesh.
of Palestinian politicians have no better opinion. "They do not care about people, only interested in money. The division [between Fatah and Hamas, the rival political parties] only benefits the Israelis." He added: "First we must end corruption and Palestinian divide, only then will we be able struggle against Israeli occupation. "Her parents, recognizing fear that something happens, that the goal in jail any political group that attacks on his blog. But she says she has no fear and that" if we must die, unless it is for something, right? ".
Lina al Sharif. The day I met this young blogger of 22 years came with his parents. They wanted to give the nod to the interviewer. Once completed its mission, sat quietly at a table near which was his daughter, but not intervene. The girl complains that, by virtue of being female, must be subjected to rules that hinder their work. "My parents are cool and very modern, but if I wanted to cover some news, you should always go with a man, usually my brother, but not always easy. When night falls, I have to be home. "
Still, Al Sharif believes that culture is almost the least of which in the case of Palestinian women, the greatest obstacle is the Israeli occupation." How is Women may have to give birth at a checkpoint (checkpoint), how it is possible for a mother raising a child in Gaza, knowing that there's no horizon? "he laments.
was made three years when Al Sharif, which says aspire to be "a good Muslim," she jumped and was encouraged to publish their first entry into the blog. As she spoke of her birthday, college and made some verses. "But when war came to Gaza, everything changed, I was speechless." Those days felt that being exposed to the bombings, without electricity and water just was not enough compared to the suffering of those living in other parts of Gaza, still more exposed to artillery and Israeli bombardments. The war left about 1,400 dead and a collective trauma still omnipresent in the strip.
For Al Sharif, his blog is "a way to break the mental yet. With a mouse click I can be out of Gaza," he says. "Although I really want is freedom real, not virtual, "he qualifies.
Last summer, Al Sharif got out of Gaza through a program of the Department of State. He was in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington." It's amazing how easy it is travel there. You ride in the car and can spend hours and hours without crossing a single checkpoint. "He adds:" In the United States was the only time in my life when I was young. "
Al Sharif is a very smart girl and scholar. speaks perfect English, learned in part on the public school, but especially on the Internet, an educational program of the BBC. Like her, many young people in the band that made themselves in the absence of alternatives or outside support. "Some classmates say I'm too serious, but I have to educate myself if I want to get somewhere." So says the time is not part of his plans to marry. "After a certain age, if you're married you're a social failure. But on the other hand, if you marry, you start to have a baby after another and you end your training." Sameeh
Elwan. Sameeh is that of a family of refugees from the territory of modern Israel. This 23 year old Palestinian graduated in English literature and now works as an assistant professor at the Islamic University. Not married and as any single woman lives with her strip Although parents have been working since age 15 and does not depend on them financially. At ten in the night has to go home. Still, he thinks that, little by little, women are gaining levels of freedom. Proof of this, he says, is his blog. "I write what I please. Nobody tells me silent."
You Tube is your window to the world. There he sees almost everything. Just when you think for a moment and realize that this is just a screen, you feel trapped and he remembers that can not travel. In his excellent grades in college soon serve to break through the tight borders of the Gaza Strip. Although almost no foreigners would consider living in Gaza at will, like many other young people would like to see children grow up someday be in Gaza. "This is the only place in the world where life has real meaning. There is always something to fight."
Like many of the strip, is disillusioned with politicians and political division it hurts the Palestinian cause that is bleeding. Now, however, is thrilled with the winds of change blowing in the Arab world. He spends his days attached to Facebook and Twitter. "Tunisia and Egypt have given us much hope. I believe that the new government will bring many good things to the Palestinians."
The more or less young, secular or religious, militant or even poetic. But if some bloggers have in common the Gaza Strip is that the Internet is for them one of the few windows of expression and communication with the world. The Israeli blockade that has lasted more three years and coincides with the takeover of the Islamist movement, prevents both women and men enter and leave the Strip except for very rare exceptions. In the case of women, lack of freedom of movement is added the limitations of a conservative culture and increasingly Islamized. So, Internet is for half-life bloggers and Gaza so that when they have to type in rooms that are often shared with a bunch of brothers, feel free. These are the ideas and projects of some of the cyber fringe, Asmaa
Alghoul. It is probably the dean and, of course, makes the most noise in the Gaza Strip. He has 29 years, a child of six and divorced. It is one of the most critical voices throughout Hamas. The Islamist movement said that the poor buy all kinds of services offering and a place in heaven. Alghoul Gaza fear that one day end up being a great Islamic university, where students are living separately and where women are covered from head to toe. "There can not see you talking to a man unless you're married, in the mosques are saying that society is full of prostitutes and to be filled. The woman is always suspicious. Sometimes I think that Islamists are the most Freudian , see sex everywhere. hide behind religion to impose policies sexist and discriminatory. "
Alghoul, born in a refugee camp near Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip border, is an exception in almost every way. For starters it is a divorced woman who moves to ease -sometimes even by bicycle in the Gaza Strip by hair in the wind. But above all, it is very clear that being a woman can not force her to make life more miserable than any man. In part because he broke with her husband, an Egyptian poet after the wedding turned out to be an extremely jealous man who aspired to his wife not to leave home to work. "When I got divorced, everyone blamed me for having erred in choosing a husband. Then my uncles forced me to wear the hijab. You need to have a man next to deciding whether you get or you take off the handkerchief. "But after a while, he realized he did not need the approval of any man to make that decision." I took it off and Yes, people criticize you, what? ".
is a writer and journalist, but left her job at a newspaper close to Fatah, the ruling party in Ramallah, because she is not tied to any party or feel like censure anyone what he writes. So in 2009 he set up his own blog and began posting his articles. There complaint calls, talk politics and the crimes of honor and discrimination suffered by women like her in the Gaza Strip. "This is very difficult to be a lay woman," he says. In his blog has received death threats. "Yes, of course, easy is not to fight, but if we lost we can express ourselves freely." Recently arrested for participating in a protest in support of the Egyptian revolution and says she was beaten at the police station. That has not diminished one iota their fighting spirit. Now preparing new protests by Palestinian youths emulating the experience of their Egyptian neighbors. Rana
Baker. Is a Business Administration student at the Islamic University of Gaza, 19 years, you would like to be a journalist and making their first steps on a local radio. In his blog he writes in English because she says she is trying "to talk to the world out there."
your blog entries talk about their childhood, teenage life and politics. Like other young, Baker is undergoing a rapid process of politicization, which began shortly after the war in Gaza (2008-2009) and has grown with the riots that drive young people throughout the Arab world. "I've noticed that young people can demand that our governments. Let us be men or women. If we participate together in the revolution, then we are equal."
tells Israeli attacks first person and has become an activist movement that promotes a boycott of Israeli products. "While we are subject to an embargo, I boicotearé Israeli products." On the Net also spent hours devoted to discussing with the Israelis in the forums, but never had the opportunity to meet an Israeli flesh.
of Palestinian politicians have no better opinion. "They do not care about people, only interested in money. The division [between Fatah and Hamas, the rival political parties] only benefits the Israelis." He added: "First we must end corruption and Palestinian divide, only then will we be able struggle against Israeli occupation. "Her parents, recognizing fear that something happens, that the goal in jail any political group that attacks on his blog. But she says she has no fear and that" if we must die, unless it is for something, right? ".
Lina al Sharif. The day I met this young blogger of 22 years came with his parents. They wanted to give the nod to the interviewer. Once completed its mission, sat quietly at a table near which was his daughter, but not intervene. The girl complains that, by virtue of being female, must be subjected to rules that hinder their work. "My parents are cool and very modern, but if I wanted to cover some news, you should always go with a man, usually my brother, but not always easy. When night falls, I have to be home. "
Still, Al Sharif believes that culture is almost the least of which in the case of Palestinian women, the greatest obstacle is the Israeli occupation." How is Women may have to give birth at a checkpoint (checkpoint), how it is possible for a mother raising a child in Gaza, knowing that there's no horizon? "he laments.
was made three years when Al Sharif, which says aspire to be "a good Muslim," she jumped and was encouraged to publish their first entry into the blog. As she spoke of her birthday, college and made some verses. "But when war came to Gaza, everything changed, I was speechless." Those days felt that being exposed to the bombings, without electricity and water just was not enough compared to the suffering of those living in other parts of Gaza, still more exposed to artillery and Israeli bombardments. The war left about 1,400 dead and a collective trauma still omnipresent in the strip.
For Al Sharif, his blog is "a way to break the mental yet. With a mouse click I can be out of Gaza," he says. "Although I really want is freedom real, not virtual, "he qualifies.
Last summer, Al Sharif got out of Gaza through a program of the Department of State. He was in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington." It's amazing how easy it is travel there. You ride in the car and can spend hours and hours without crossing a single checkpoint. "He adds:" In the United States was the only time in my life when I was young. "
Al Sharif is a very smart girl and scholar. speaks perfect English, learned in part on the public school, but especially on the Internet, an educational program of the BBC. Like her, many young people in the band that made themselves in the absence of alternatives or outside support. "Some classmates say I'm too serious, but I have to educate myself if I want to get somewhere." So says the time is not part of his plans to marry. "After a certain age, if you're married you're a social failure. But on the other hand, if you marry, you start to have a baby after another and you end your training." Sameeh
Elwan. Sameeh is that of a family of refugees from the territory of modern Israel. This 23 year old Palestinian graduated in English literature and now works as an assistant professor at the Islamic University. Not married and as any single woman lives with her strip Although parents have been working since age 15 and does not depend on them financially. At ten in the night has to go home. Still, he thinks that, little by little, women are gaining levels of freedom. Proof of this, he says, is his blog. "I write what I please. Nobody tells me silent."
You Tube is your window to the world. There he sees almost everything. Just when you think for a moment and realize that this is just a screen, you feel trapped and he remembers that can not travel. In his excellent grades in college soon serve to break through the tight borders of the Gaza Strip. Although almost no foreigners would consider living in Gaza at will, like many other young people would like to see children grow up someday be in Gaza. "This is the only place in the world where life has real meaning. There is always something to fight."
Like many of the strip, is disillusioned with politicians and political division it hurts the Palestinian cause that is bleeding. Now, however, is thrilled with the winds of change blowing in the Arab world. He spends his days attached to Facebook and Twitter. "Tunisia and Egypt have given us much hope. I believe that the new government will bring many good things to the Palestinians."
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